!!!Traeger, Wilhelm

Traeger, Wilhelm, b. Vienna, May 27, 1907, 
d. Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), July 10, 1980, painter and 
neorealist graphic artist ( New Objectivity ). Studied from 1926-1932 
at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Vienna University of Technology 
(maths, descriptive geometry), his studies being sponsored by a Danish 
foster family. From 1933 art instructor in Upper Austria, 1935 member 
of the Upper Austrian Kunstverein artists' association and of the 
Vienna Secession, 1936 moved to Ried. From 1974 president of the Upper 
Austrian Kunstverein artists' association.

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Work: linocut sequence "Wien 1932", collages.

!Literature
C. Bertsch and M. Neuwirth, Die ungewisse Hoffnung. Oe. 
Malerei u. Graphik zw. 1918 und 1938, 1993; K. Schroeder, Neue 
Sachlichkeit, Oe. 1918-1938, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1995.



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